ABOUT
Onju Updegrave has been in the San Francisco Bay area since 1982, practicing
architecture and completing her Masters of Architecture at U.C. Berkeley.
In 2011 the practice expanded to the Boulder, Colorado area. Onju raised
her family Marin County, California and established her private practice
in 1997 there after being mentored by experienced and gifted architects
she worked for in West Marin County, including Jim Campe, an early pioneer
in sustainable building practices.
Onju’s work is reflective of a lifetime of immersion in architecture
and diverse cultures and environments. Her mother is an architect, she
spent most of her childhood in India, and her high school years in New
York City. Work and travel have taken her to many parts of the world
including work in India implementing synthesized traditional and modern
methods of building. Adaptive architecture is the sensibility developed
from the diversity of experience in places of extreme climates, precious
resources and limited physical space.
Projects in custom residential architecture span the San Francisco Bay
Area and Northbay with a focus in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Commercial
projects include projects for the County of Marin such as the multi-phased
new building and renovation of the County Juvenile Hall facilities. A
rich diversity of residential projects include rural residential projects
on large parcels, projects incorporating green practices such as solar
technology, and projects with very tight space and budget constraints.
In addition, we have worked with clients in disaster recovery re-building
after floods and fires. Design is approached as a collaborative process
with a broad view of how we live in and grow with buildings over time.
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